re: Interesting article on poverty in Appalachia

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It might be time to implement a solution.

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But how? There have only been a handful of people who've ever been able to truly portray poverty in these areas without exploiting or sensationalizing those who are born into these areas. And before people will take action they do need to know about it. I'd love nothing more than to see the grinding poverty of the Delta, the Rez's, the ghettos, Appalachia etc. dealt with seriously. I DO believe it can be fixed if we set our minds to it -- we did send a man to the moon after all.

I'm open to anything and everything in the way of ideas. No American should have to live the way the people of these forgotten areas have to.

I really do think it would cost little to fix but in terms of getting the general public to truly understand and so set their minds to solving things I'm at a loss for how we spark that fire.